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CDs: V/A - Dark Was the Night Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion The Decemberists - Hazards of Love Wilco - Wilco (The Album) Grizzly Bear - Veckatamist The Antlers - Hospice The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Japandroids - Post-Nothing Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Deluxe) Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage R. Kelly - Double Up American Football - s/t Bruce Springsteen - Live 1975/1985 Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live! Woody Guthrie - Hard Luck Blues V/A - Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Cur

I agree, although Keep Fishin' might beat both of those songs

"Young Hearts Spark Fire" by Japandroids is undoubtedly my favorite song of the year. Some HM's: Volcano Choir - Island, Is Phoenix - Lisztomania Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (Is that allowed to count?) Passion Pit - Little Secrets Bon Iver - Blood Bank The Antlers - Two Bat for Lashes - Daniel Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks Animal Collective - Brothersport Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 2. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand 3. Weezer - Pinkerton 4. Wilco - Summerteeth 5. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 6. The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin 7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness 8. Radiohead - OK Computer 9. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 11. Beck - Odelay 12. Weezer - s/t 13. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One 14. Nirvana - Nevermind 15. Beck - Midnite Vultures 16. Wilco - Being There 17. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes 18. Radiohead - The Bends 19.

Weezer could be mine. Their 2000's output is infuriating, but I still consider the first two albums two of my favorites ever. Guided By Voices, Pavement and Beck are all close as well.

Haha, that was my first Hold Steady show and I loved that line. "We all love Budweiser, but I gotta say.." I saw them on the tour with DBT and they closed, and while I understand a big Drive By Truckers fan getting annoyed by people sitting down and not being as into their show, they simply didn't bring the energy that the Hold Steady did. Sure, "Let There Be Rock" was incredible, and I like their songs, it just didn't compare to the sound of the horn section blairing along to Craig Finn singing "Banging Camps." They easily put on one of the most passionate, fun, and energetic performances I

Did everyone who listed the new Boston Spaceships record buy it? I can't find it online anywhere, and despite not totally loving the first two singles, I'm really interested since I've heard so much awesome press for it.

I'm actually a big fan of BitUSA. That middle run of songs of Downbound Train through I'm Goin' Down is pretty awesome. I also still consider Dancing in the Dark a great song and I'm always excited to see it live

You have a lot of the essentials, but I absolutely loved the Japandroids album called Post-Nothing as well as Hospice by The Antlers, both of while you'll probably enjoy based on what your choices

Yeah, Volcano Choir has it's moments where everything comes together, but most of it is either boring or annoying. Island, IS and Still are both incredible though

I'm just starting my first listen, but man, I really liked Dear God when it was first still released. Still sounds great now. It's kinda like an Evil Urges track but more tasteful... not a fan of Conor's verse though.

How about The Rat by The Walkmen?

I was very surprised at Neighborhood #1's inclusion over Wake Up, as well as the absence of I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. Ideoteque as the top Radiohead song made total sense to me, and I was really pleased All My Friends is #2. All the pop songs were pretty wall chosen.. I mean, how amazing of a track is Crazy in Love? I listened to a couple of the songs in the top 20 that I had never heard, and I will say that the song by the Rapture is horrible. Heartbeat by Annie didn't impress me at all either, and I never got what was so great about Blind (or Antony Heggarty for that matter). Oh wel

Very cool new song. I'm really interested to hear what the whole album sounds like

That "Let's Get Retarded in Here" song by the Black Eyed Peas?

God, I love his music but that music just makes me feel even more hatred towards his personality.

I've caught little bits of the webcast. Had to turn off Pains of Being Pure At Heart just now.. yeesh are their vocals bad live. Looking forward to catching parts of the fest this weekend though

This is fairly accurate for me too, although I would rank Tennessee Fire as the lowest with around a 7. At Dawn probably is their masterpiece, although I still think they could've cut Honest Man. That track always kind of annoyed me, and X-Mas Curtain would've worked fine as the transition between the slow set of songs before it to the more epic second half of the album

I'm so filled with angry Massachusetts pride right now, I can't even form a comeback. I've personally come to laugh at the antics of the mass-hole crowd, and let's be honest, a few "Yankee's Suck" chants aside, its not an overwhelming demographic you see at any Wilco show. It's not like all the public school janitors that drink at the Elk's lodge are crowding up to listen to ALTWYS

Christ. I always thought Jeff's stuff on Spiders was really similar to a lot of Ira Kaplan's solos with Yo La Tengo. I must hear more about that collaboration. The possibilities are unbelievable

I'm pretty sure he was giving him some picks to give to the kids in the front row. Very cool!

Thankfully I live really close to Lowell so I was able to figure out some backroads to get home. The traffic leading up the Lowell Connector looked horrible

Hahaha, yeah I am along with Walken. And yes, Okkervil is amazing live. I caught them at the Middle East Sept 07 and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I also made fun of the guitarist on the right a lot. The whole band was pretty funny to watch. The bassist looked like he was shocked to find himself onstage in front of all those people.

I was right next to you for that! I noticed because I have that same Okkervil River shirt, but I honestly thought you were probably a Conor fan based on the shirt and the similarity in styles between the two bands (Okkervil is clearly shit-tons better)

Ahh, would've loved to hear Magazine Called Sunset. Still though, I'll trade in hearing Walken, Hate It Here, Late Greats, etc. again for the experience of last nights show